The same in English.

The French in the meane season hauing gotten some leasure by meanes of their truce, and being sollicited and vrged
by the intreaties of the Genuois vndertooke to wage warre against the Moores, who robbed and spoyled all the coasts of
Italy, and of the Ilandes adiacent. Likewise Richard the second, king of England, being sued vnto for ayde, sent Henry
the Earle of Derbie with a choice armie of English souldiers vnto the same warfare. Wherefore the English and French,
with forces and mindes vnited, sayled ouer into Africa, who when they approached vnto the shore were repelled by the
Barbarians from landing, vntill such time as they had passage made them by the valour of the English archers. Thus
hauing landed their forces, they foorthwith marched vnto the royall citie of Tunis, and besieged it. Whereat the
Barbarians being dismayed, sent Ambassadours vnto our Christian Chieftaines to treat of peace, which our men graunted
vnto them, vpon condition that they should pay a certaine summe of money, and that they should from thencefoorth
abstaine from piracies vpon all the coasts of Italy and France. And so hauing dispatched their businesse, within a fewe
moneths after their departure they returned home.

This Historie is somewhat otherwise recorded by Froysard and Holenshed in manner following, pag 473.

In the thirteenth yeere of the reigne of King Richard the second, the Christians tooke in hand a iourney against the
Saracens of Barbarie through sute of the Genouois, so that there went a great number of Lords, Knights, and Gentlemen
of France and England, the Duke of Burbon being their Generall. Out of England there went Iohn de Beaufort bastarde
sonne to the Duke of Lancaster (as Froysard hath noted) also Sir Iohn Russell, Sir Iohn Butler, Sir Iohn Harecourt and
others. They set forwarde in the latter ende of the thirteenth yeere of the Kings reigne, and came to Genoa, where they
remayned not verie long, but that the gallies and other vessels of the Genouois were ready to passe them ouer into
Barbarie. And so about midsomer in the begining of the foureteenth yere of this kings reigne the whole army being
embarked, sailed forth to the coast of Barbary, where neere to the city of Africa they landed: The
Chronicles of Genoa at which instant the English archers (as the Chronicles of Genoa write) stood all the
company in good stead with their long bowes, beating backe the enemies from the shore, which came downe to resist their
landing. After they had got to land, they inuironed the city of Africa (called by the Moores Mahdia) with a strong
siege: but at length, constrained with the intemperancy of the scalding ayre in that hot countrey, breeding in the army
sundry diseases, they fell to a composition vpon certaine articles to be performed in the behalfe of the Saracens: and
so 61 dayes after their arriuall there they tooke the seas againe, and returned home, as in the histories of France and
Genoa is likewise expressed. Where, by Polidore Virgil it may seeme, that the lord Henry of Lancaster earle of Derbie
should be generall of the English men, that (as before you heard) went into Barbary with the French men and
Genouois.